Released in 1947, Dick Tracy meets Gruesome is the last Tracy feature film until 1990. Here a criminal gang discovers and usees a nerve gas that makes people appear dead. Led by Gruesome, a corpse like british gangster, the gang commit a number of crimes including a bank robbery with Dick Tracy hot on their tail. Once again Ralph Byrd stars as Dick Tracy and horror actor Boris Karloff of Frakenstein fame plays Gruesome.